Combination swing and sliding car-door



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W. SUTTON. GO'M-BINATION SWING AND SLIDING GAR DOOR. No. 507,853)

Patented Oct. 31, 1893.

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I w. SUTTON. COMBINATION SWING AND SLIDING OAR DOOR. No. 507,853. Patented Oct. 31, 1893.

UNrrE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM SUTTON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COMBINATION SWING AND SLIDING CAR-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,853, dated October 31, 1893.

Application filed March 6, 1893. Serial No. 464,840. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SUTTON, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combination Swing and Sliding Oar-Doors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a combination door, one member of which is a swinging door, which is pivoted at the center of the doorway in the threshold below and in the door cap above, and which member swings from side to side, to close when shut either side of the doorway; and the other member of said combination door is a sliding door that hangs on traveler wheels and has a clear, sliding or traveler track just inside the closure line of the swinging door, and closes when shut the other side of the doorway not closed by the swinging door, when it is desired to fully close said doorway; and the invention consists in features of I novelty, hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is an elevation of one end of a car and shows the combination door closed. Fig. II is a horizontal detail section of the end of the car, showing the combination door and the outside end platform. Fig. III is an enlarged, detail, horizontal section of the doorway closed by the combination swing and sliding door; and Fig, IV is an enlarged, horizontal, detail section and shows the swing member of the combination door and the hinge pivot clamp box flange I attachment thereto.

Referring to the drawings:1 represents the body of a railroad car, 2 its sides, 3 one of.

its ends in which the combination swing and sliding door 4 is hung, 5 the end Windows, 6 the roof, 7 the canopy, 8 the inner floor, 9 the seats, 10 the elongated end platform, and 11 the dash-board. The said elongated platform is extended to allow free room for the conductor to stand back of the swinging door, and the passing passengers.

12 represents the threshold sill, 13 the side posts of the door-way, and 14 the door-cap.

15 represents the swing member of the combination door, and 16 are the pivot hinge bolts bywhich said member of the door is hung in the respective countersunk thimbles 17 that are respectively inserted in the threshold sill 12 below and in the door cap 14 above. 18 are round bearer shoulders that project laterally around said hinge pivots and bear against the flange 19 of said thimbles, and 20 are perforate clamp box attachment flanges that extend vertically and integrally from said shoulders, and embrace around the curved, rear edge of said swinging member of the combination door, and 21 are rivets that secure the attachment of said box flanges, and through them of the hinge pivots, and their bearer shoulders with which they are integral to said swing member of the combination door, and. strengthen the same. 22 represents the panels and 23 the handles of said swing member of the door. The said panels are of the same finish on each side as they are turned from one side to the other. 24 represents the sliding member of said combination door, 25 its panels, and 26 its handles. 27 represents bracket bearers that are secured by screw bolts 28 to said sliding member of the door, and 29 are traveler wheels the journals 30 of which run in the bearings 31 in the upper portions of said bracketbearers. 32 represents the track-bar on which said traveler wheels run, when the sliding member of the combination door is slid from one side to the other of the door-way, or to any intermediate position therein, close inside the swing member of the combination door when closed.

In the operation of the device it will be seen that the swinging and sliding members of the combination door are each and mutually transferable or reversible from side to side, and consequently alike operative on either side, and also that when itis required to have the inlet to and exit from the car on either particular side, both the swing and sliding members of the combination door are folded together on the reverse side, leaving an open passage on the required side. Thus when a car is traveling on a double track road, the side of the doorway next the adjoining track will always be closed to overcome the danger to boarding and alighting passengers. Also when for any reason it is preferred to use either the swing member or the sliding member of said combination door, and

the said members are not so arranged, all that is required to do to effect the change is to swing the one member round to the reverse side, and slide the other across to its reverse side; so that the conductor can use either the swing or the sliding arrangement; as is preferred. It will also be seen that the pivot hung connection from the threshold to door cap of the swing section of the door constitutes an efficient underpinning for the center of the car-roof, and also in combination with the swing member of the combination door, the said parts form an efficient brace at each end of the body of the car when said door is closed 011 either side.

In conclusion, it will be understood that this invention is intended for use on all cars, on all roads, whether propelled by steam, electric, cable, horse or any other power.

I claim as my invention l. The combination of a door-way, a swing member pivoted vertically in the door-way for closing either side of the latter, and a sliding member for closing either side of the doorway, left open by the swing member, substantiaily as described.

2. The combination of the surmounting track, the door way, the reversible swing member pivoted vertically midwayin the doorway so as to close either side of the latter and the sliding member that slides and rolls laterally pendent from the surmounting track to occupy either side of the door-way, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the door-Way having a sill and a cap, the counter-sunk thiinbles 17, embedded mid-wayin the sill and cap, the reversible swing member 15 having the hinge pivot 16, seated in said thimbles, the bearer shoulders 18, and the perforate clamp boxed attachment flanges 20, the sliding member 24, having the bracket bearers 27 and the traveler wheels 29 and the surmounting track bar 32; the said swing and sliding members arranged to alternately occupy the respective sides of the door-Way, or to unitedly occupy one side thereof; substantially as described.

WILLIAM SUTTON.

Witnesses:

BENJN. A. KNIGHT, ALBERT M. EBERSOLE. 

